Re: [PATCH V3 00/11] rtla improvements

[Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 06/06/23 18:12, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote:
> This is a series of improvements for rtla, mainly as a result of our
> daily usage of the tool debugging problems at red hat.
> 
> The cgroup support and house keeping options are from our usage
> of the tool debugging containers.
> 
> The auto-analysis overhead reduction is needed when we go to
> large boxes - but it is really hand in practice, as it gives an idea
> of the problem without having to look at the trace.
> 
> Running hwnoise 100 % of CPU time might cause some systems
> to slow down too much. Reduce its utilization to 75% by default to
> avoid problems for people using it for the first time.
> 
> Finally, it adds support for running timerlat user-space threads,
> and to collect the additional field via rtla timerlat top/hist.
> 
> Changes from V2:
>   - Add timerlat hist -u option
>   - Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1684863094.git.bristot@kernel.org/
> Changes from V1:
>   - Add the user-space thread support to rtla timerlat top
>   - Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1683827510.git.bristot@kernel.org/
> 
> Daniel Bristot de Oliveira (11):
>   rtla: Add -C cgroup support
>   rtla: Add --house-keeping option
>   rtla: Change monitored_cpus from char * to cpu_set_t
>   rtla: Automatically move rtla to a house-keeping cpu
>   rtla/timerlat: Give timerlat auto analysis its own instance
>   rtla/timerlat_hist: Add auto-analysis support
>   rtla: Start the tracers after creating all instances
>   rtla/hwnoise: Reduce runtime to 75%
>   rtla: Add timerlat user-space support for timerlat top
>   rtla: Add timerlat user-space support for
>   Documentation: Add tools/rtla timerlat -u option documentation
> 
>  Documentation/tools/rtla/common_options.rst   |   8 +
>  .../tools/rtla/common_timerlat_aa.rst         |   7 -
>  .../tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst    |   7 +
>  .../tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat-hist.rst         |   7 +-
>  .../tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat-top.rst          |   7 +
>  tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise.c              |  65 ++++
>  tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise.h              |   5 +
>  tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_hist.c         |  90 ++++-
>  tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_top.c          |  83 ++++-
>  tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_aa.c          |  35 +-
>  tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_aa.h          |   5 +-
>  tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_hist.c        | 262 ++++++++++++--
>  tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c         | 229 +++++++++++--
>  tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_u.c           | 224 ++++++++++++
>  tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_u.h           |  18 +
>  tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.c                | 324 +++++++++++++++++-
>  tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.h                |   7 +
>  17 files changed, 1277 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_u.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_u.h
> 
> -- 

I've been heavily relying on these for debugging various issues with
latency sensitive workloads and they work like a charm.

Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>

Best,
Juri